The association between audit committeeeffectiveness and audit risk

Qualitative research has identified numerous indicators of audit committee effectiveness having not already enacted in current regulations and requirements related to the audit committee. In the first step, this study investigates the viewpoints of independent auditors to achieve key indicators of audit committee effectiveness. In the second step of the study, it deals with the relationship between the effectiveness of the audit committee based on the list of independent auditors (resulting from the first step of the research) and the effectiveness of the audit committee based on legal requirements with audit risk from the perspective of partners and managers of audit firms. Logistic regression is used. Based on the results, there is a significant negative relationship between audit committee characteristics based on statutory requirements and audit risk. There is also a negative significant relationship between audit committee characteristics based on the list of auditors and audit risk. However, in low-risk companies, the ratio of effectiveness of audit committee-based features to a selected list of auditors was about twice that of high-risk firms. It can be stated that independent auditors get more attention to the characteristics of an effective audit committee based on the list of auditors selected than to the list of statutory requirements in assessing customer audit risk.